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While it isn't officially supported, we have many users who successfully run NewsBin under Linux with a Windows emulator (Wine is the most popular). This forum exists for you Linux guys to share your experience getting NewsBin running on Linux as well as report any strangeness that we may or may not be able to fix. DThor is the resident expert.

I use Kubuntu Linux 12.10 with Wine 1.5.8 and Newsbin 6.33.I am unable to expand a search result by clicking the "+" sign to the left of it.For a while i thought this was Newbin but tried it under windows and it works as it should.

Can anyone shine an light on how i can get this to work under Wine. It is driving me crazy as when i get a corrupt file there is no way to just down load that one file again.

If you delete the corrupt file on disk and re-download, the whole set thing. Newsbin won't re-download all the files. It'll just check the existing files on disk and download the corrupted file you deleted. This assumes:

Select the file and hit Ctrl-Y to bypass the duplicate checker or disable it entirely in the advanced options. As I said, if there are pars and you download to the same folder, it won't re-download all the files. It'll check download the first chunk of each file then verify it.

Normally if you have enough pars the damaged file can just be repaired. I'm assuming the repair failed or something. Otherwise re-downloading is seldom needed.

You will have to manually delete the damaged file first if you really want it to re-download.

It's not super likely. If you stop and think about it, do you really think revenue for a Linux port could possibly justify the work needed? It's non-trivial. Plus, it's really remarkably 'good enough' in wine. I think it's pretty cool wine let's you run it at all.

Grayham wrote:I am unable to expand a search result by clicking the "+" sign to the left of it.

Quade wrote:Right and left arrows do it to. It's some issue with Wine.

1. Has anyone figured out a solution/workaround?2. (If not...) I'd like to file a bug report with WineHQ; any ideas where the root of the issue may lay?3. (Since it seems to be a UI thing...) What is/are the UI component(s) so I can include 'em in the bug report?